US6174224B1 - Method and apparatus for cooling and/or lubrication of a work head - Google Patents

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US6174224B1
US6174224B1 US09/242,835 US24283599A US6174224B1 US 6174224 B1 US6174224 B1 US 6174224B1 US 24283599 A US24283599 A US 24283599A US 6174224 B1 US6174224 B1 US 6174224B1
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Valeri Tsarev
Viljo Olavi Kilpel{umlaut over (a)}inen
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23Q—DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g. ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOT DIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT
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  • the present invention relates to a workhead intended for metal working machines, which is adaptable for use in such mechanical working of metals and plastics involving the use of liquid lubricants and/or coolants.
  • mechanical working encompasses various machining operations, such as turning, grindings etc. as well as non-cutting treatment of surfaces to be worked, such as for example the use of various pressing tools for finishing a surface.
  • the invention relates also to a method for mechanical working of materials with a workhead, including a tool acting on a surface to be worked and means for supplying a liquid lubricant and/or coolant onto the working area of a surface to be treated.
  • the liquid lubricant and/or coolant When flowing through said conduit, the liquid lubricant and/or coolant is subjected to an ultrasound treatment which improves its lubricating and cooling properties and reduces the degree of plastic strain within the chip-forming area.
  • a defect in this prior known apparatus is that the ultrasound treatment of a liquid lubricant and/or coolant is not sufficiently effective due to small amounts of liquid lubricant and/or coolant subjected to the treatment and due to a short duration of the ultrasound oscillation applied thereto as well as due to the location of a concentrator in the proximity of a surface to be treated, which is why this apparatus can only make use of liquid lubricants and/or coolants at a low viscosity without homogeneous and heterogeneous additives.
  • the cylindrical housing When the apparatus is operating, the cylindrical housing is supplied through the connecting pipe with a liquid lubricant and/or coolant, which fills the pipe to the top surface and runs through this pipe and the connector to the end of the corrugated tube and onto the working surface of a grinding wheel.
  • a liquid lubricant and/or coolant which fills the pipe to the top surface and runs through this pipe and the connector to the end of the corrugated tube and onto the working surface of a grinding wheel.
  • From an ultrasound generator extends a supply to a magnetostriction converter and concurrently the liquid lubricant and/or coolant as well as the corrugated tube are subjected to ultrasound oscillations.
  • a defect in this prior known apparatus is a low efficiency of the ultrasound treatment, which is why it cannot be used with liquid lubricants and/or coolants, which are organic mixture blends and which contain for example asphaltenes—resins which have a lower thermal stability and solubility than aromatic hydrocarbons.
  • This type of liquid lubricants and/or coolants are needed when working metals by cutting, grinding, turning, drilling etc.
  • it is not possible to achieve a necessary stability for water-in-oil emulsions the decrease of viscosity is slight and so is the increase in the anti-bacterial resistance of a liquid lubricant and/or coolant.
  • the mission to be accomplished by the invention encompasses the construction of a workhead for metal working machines, which has high operating qualities and which is capable of securing a.o. a minimal wear of the tool and a high quality for a surface to be treated.
  • a workhead of the invention is characterized by what is set forth in the characterizing portion of claim 1 .
  • a method of the invention is characterized by what is set forth in the characterizing portion of claim 7 .
  • the technical result achieved by implementing the invention comprises an improvement in the efficiency of the cavitation treatment of a liquid lubricant and/or coolant, which secures the dispersion of a solid lubrication in aqueous solutions, an increase in the stability of water-in-oil emulsions, decomposition of a liquid lubricant and/or coolant and a decrease of viscosity, an improvement in corrosion resistance.
  • the improved quality of a liquid lubricant and/or coolant the wear of tools is reduced, with blades, for example, a 1,5-2-fold reduction, and simultaneously the quality of a working surface and the geometrical properties thereof are improved.
  • the improved anti-bacterial resistance of a liquid lubricant and/or coolant the service life of such liquid increases, thus reducing the consumption thereof.
  • An object of this invention resides in the fact that a workhead intended for mechanical working of various materials, such as metals, plastics, which includes an electromechanical converter, rigidly engaged with an extension element, located in a housing chamber filled with a liquid lubricant and/or coolant, a tool, a power supply with its winding, pipelines in a flow communication with the chamber for supplying and discharging the liquid lubricant and/or coolant, is provided with at least one hydrodynamic additional oscillator, which is placed in the liquid lubricant and/or coolant supply and discharge pipelines or in the same housing with the electromechanical converter, said additional oscillator having an operating frequency which is 1,5-3 ′′10 5 times higher than the frequency of the main converter, and that the liquid supply pipe of the chamber is fitted with a hydrostatic pressure regulator.
  • the apparatus is provided in the upper portion of the housing with a gas supply pipe, which is fitted with a pressure regulator.
  • the electromechanical converter may comprise electromagnetic, magnetostriction, electrostriction, electrodynamic and other oscillators, which convert the energy of an electrical current into mechanical oscillatory motions.
  • the characterizing features of an apparatus of the invention secure at least a two-frequency cavitation treatment for the liquid lubricant and/or coolant, which substantially improves the liquid quality.
  • the conducted studies have proved that the cooperation between two-frequency cavitation fields separated by an order (order of 8) or more enhances considerably the efficiency of a process action for a liquid lubricant and/or coolant, depending on the adaptation of the frequencies of cavitation fields, the amplitudes of pressures, and the static distribution feature of the dimensions of cavitation embryos.
  • the action of the forces of a low-frequency field is combined with a static pressure, which leads to an improvement in the efficiency of the action of cavitation of a single cavity.
  • the high-frequency field creates the oscillations of cavitation cavities.
  • the expansion rate of a single cavity at first increases until the cavity dimensions surpass the resonance and then diminish.
  • the cavity reaches a maximum radius in the earlier phase of a low-frequency field, as the amplitude of pressure is at its maximum.
  • the energy of the cavity increases vigorously during the collapse and cuts down the collapsing time.
  • the actions of acoustic currents and radiation pressure gain strength the audio-capillary effect will be more pronounced.
  • the workpiece develops various microscopic crystal imperfections, the working surfaces, affected adversely by oxygen, become oxidized. This improves the chemical adsorption of the reagents of liquid lubricants and/or coolants, improves the adhesion thereof to a surface to be treated.
  • the adsorption of the reagents of a liquid lubricant and/or coolant onto the surfaces of solid lubrication particles decreases the adhesion forces therebetween and prevents the sintering of particles, while activating the cleaning and lubricating properties.
  • the emulsion becomes low-dispersive.
  • FIG. 1 shows one embodiment for an apparatus of the invention in a schematic view
  • FIG. 2 shows another embodiment for an apparatus of the invention in a schematic view.
  • the apparatus includes a housing 1 , whose internal chamber space is fitted with an oscillator 2 (an electromechanical converter), to which is connected a disc roller 4 through the intermediary of an extension piece 3 .
  • an oscillator 2 an electromechanical converter
  • a pipeline 6 is intended for supplying a liquid lubricant and/or coolant into the housing 1 and a pipeline 7 for delivering the liquid lubricant and/or coolant from the housing 1 onto a working area.
  • a spring 8 is intended for pressing the housing 1 , the extension piece 3 , and the tool 4 against a workpiece 9 .
  • On the pipeline 6 is mounted a hydrostatic pressure regulator 10 .
  • the pipelines 7 and 6 are fitted with hydrodynamic emitters 11 .
  • a workhead is secured to the cradle of a working machine by means of a tool holder 12 .
  • the top portion of the housing 1 is fitted with a pipeline 13 for supplying nitrogen through a static gas pressure regulator 14 .
  • the housing 1 is further provided with a hydrodynamic vortex converter 15 and the tool employed is a slotting tool 16 .
  • the working machine can be a flattening machine.
  • the apparatus operates as follows.
  • the workhead is secured by means of the tool holder 12 to the cradle of a working machine.
  • the tool 4 is shown in the starting position out of contact with a surface to be treated.
  • the housing 1 is filled with a liquid lubricant and/or coolant (e.g. Castrol Syntilo R4) through the hydraulic hydrostatic-pressure regulator 10 , the emitter 11 , and the pipeline 6 .
  • a liquid lubricant and/or coolant e.g. Castrol Syntilo R4
  • the liquid-filled cavity develops a positive pressure of 1,2 MPa. Under the elevated static pressure, the cavitation enhances intensely the destruction process of soiled adsorption surfaces.
  • the oscillator 2 Upon receiving electricity through the power supply 5 , the oscillator 2 begins its function. Simultaneously the oscillators 11 , which operate at high frequencies (e.g. 2 MHz), start applying their action on the liquid lubricant and/or coolant.
  • the main oscillator 2 has an operating frequency of e.g. 10 Hz.
  • the liquid lubricant and/or coolant will be subjected in the workhead to a two-stage treatment on common two-frequency fields: those of a low frequency and a high frequency.
  • the housing 1 is secured.
  • the clamp is released and a necessary press force for the tool 4 against a workpiece is produced by means of the spring 8 .
  • the liquid lubricant and/or coolant warms up to some extent and is carried through the hydrodynamic oscillator 11 to a working area in the form of a flux of extremely small particles.
  • the components of the liquid lubricant and/or coolant disperse and develop free radicals, which are subjected to a chemical reaction with the contact surfaces 4 and 9 .
  • the liquid lubricant and/or coolant attains excellent moistening qualities and, as a result of the audio-capillary effect, penetrates into micropores existing in the surface of the piece 9 and the tool 4 and into the depressions of micro-irregularities.
  • the two-frequency treatment of a liquid lubricant and/or coolant is handled by means of a hydrodynamic vortex converter 15 , which produces the liquid cavitation; the tool comprises a slotting tool 16 .
  • the pipeline 13 is used to supply the top portion of the housing 1 with nitrogen for attaining a positive pressure for the electromechanical converter.
  • the rate of positive pressure is controlled by means of the regulator 14 .
  • the nitrogen gas improves the durability of a hard alloy tool in the working area.

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